The new free firewall freezes my laptop,
have to use the power switch to turn it off and restart.
have tried several clean installs (using the ZAcleanup tool to uninstall), but no luck
using Win 7 Professional.
think it still has problems co-existing with MS Security Essentials.

Re: Free firewall freezes computer

Originally Posted by helmutl

The new free firewall freezes my laptop,
have to use the power switch to turn it off and restart.
have tried several clean installs (using the ZAcleanup tool to uninstall), but no luck
using Win 7 Professional.
think it still has problems co-existing with MS Security Essentials.

It was freezing my desktop (a couple months old, running Windows 7) since Wednesday morning. I spent most of the evening in a great deal of frustration trying to get to the bottom of this.

Even when I did clean reboots, as suggested by Microsoft, by shutting down services/start ups the problem still persisted. On a hunch, I unisntalled ZoneAlarm and the freezing stopped and for now I'm using the built-in Firewall.

And I am guessing that perhaps it's not liking MS Security Essentials.

Re: Free firewall freezes computer

It was freezing my desktop (a couple months old, running Windows 7) since Wednesday morning. I spent most of the evening in a great deal of frustration trying to get to the bottom of this.

Even when I did clean reboots, as suggested by Microsoft, by shutting down services/start ups the problem still persisted. On a hunch, I unisntalled ZoneAlarm and the freezing stopped and for now I'm using the built-in Firewall.

And I am guessing that perhaps it's not liking MS Security Essentials.

I am 99% sure that's what it is, did the same.
tried it before with my licenced version of ZA Extreme as well, same problem,
uninstalled Security Essential and it works,

Microsoft said It will be fixed in Win7 SP1. We were not able to get re-distribution rights for the fix from Microsoft but you can download a patch from them to fix this issue before the public release of Win 7 SP1.